Online Courses

The Department of Religious Studies is committed to offering quality courses, both in-person and fully asynchronous online.

The following courses are offered fully asynchronous online.

Click the course title for a sample syllabus where available (PDF file).

• RLST 100 Introduction to the Study of Religion (Syllabus Spring 2025)
• RLST 110 Religions of the World (Syllabus Spring 2022)
• RLST 200 Introduction to Christianity
• RLST 201 Introduction to the New Testament (Syllabus Spring 2025)
• RLST 210 Introduction to Judaism
• RLST 250 Introduction to Islam (Syllabus Fall 2023)
• RLST 270T Hinduism & Sikhism (Syllabus Fall 2022)
• RLST 280 Introduction to Buddhism (Syllabus Spring 2025)
• RLST 305 Anthropology of Religion
• RLST 307 Non-violence, Animal Rights and Diet in Jainism
• RLST 311 Religion and Film (Syllabus Spring 2023)
• RLST 325 African American Religion and Spirituality
• RLST 341 Hindu Tradition to 400 B.C.E. (Syllabus Fall 2023)
• RLST 342 Hindu Tradition from 400 B.C.E.
• RLST 351 History and Development of Early Christian Thought (Syllabus Spring 2025)
• RLST 352 History and Development of Modern Christian Thought (Syllabus Fall 2023)
• RLST 361 History and Development of Jewish Thought: Biblical and Rabbinical Eras
• RLST 362 History and Development of Jewish Thought: Medieval and Modern Times
• RLST 367 Religion in Latino/a Life
• RLST 371 History and Development of Islamic Thought: The Beginning to 1258 (Syllabus Fall 2023)
• RLST 372 History and Development of Islamic Thought: 1259 to Modern Times
• RLST 373 Women in Islam
• RLST 375 Conceptions of the Afterlife (Syllabus Spring 2025)

• RLST 380 Religion and Violence
• RLST 400 Religion, Media and Culture (Syllabus Fall 2021)